Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self- respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized(归类) as "honor" help you create this life of good feelings.

Here's an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and benefit from the clerk's mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky(鬼祟的) excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.

Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?

In the first case, where we don't tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also show that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk's attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased．Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.

There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it's easy to think and act honorably again when we're happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it's started, it's easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

79．The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to___.

A．lying    

B．stealing    

C．cheating    

D．advertising

80．The phrase "bringing the error to the clerk's attention" （in para． 5） means___.

A．telling the truth to the clerk

B．offering advice to the clerk

C．asking the clerk to be more attentive

D．reminding the clerk of the charged item

81．How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?

A．We'll be very excited.

B．We'll feel unfortunate.

C．We'll have a sense of honor.

D．We'll feel sorry for the clerk.

82 .Which of the following can be the best title of this passage.

A．How to Live Truthfully

B．Importance of Peacefulness

C．Ways of Gaining Self-respect

D．Happiness through Honorable Actions

If his spare time was ____ aside for relaxation,he was____ to have a healthy life.

A. set; bound                    B. to set ; bound    

  C. to be set; bounded              D.setting; bounded

第三部分： 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.

 The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.

Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.

Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.

Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.

Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.

56．Which of the following is not true?

A．Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.

B．There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.

C．There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.

D．There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.

57．The survey shows that__________.

A．Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.

B．Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.

C．All of the people reported like to play games on-line.

D．Most of the people reported read online news.

58．Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?

A．TV    B．Sina  C．telephone  D．QQ

59．The underlined word “exceeded” means             .

A．increased to     B．increased by     C．risen  D．decreased

第二节  补全对话。根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出最佳选项，并将其答案标号填入题后的空白处。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—Now, tell me about the man who stole your neighbour’s car. What did he look like?

—Well, sir. He was tall…

—  61 

—Oh, yes, and he was younger than you—only about thirty, I’d say.

—Well! And what colour was his hair?

—It was brown, and short…it was similar to yours, actually.

—  62  

—No, he was clean-shaven.

—OK. Now have a look at these photos—can you see him?

—  63  

—But that’s Frankie Farnham—he’s got a beard, and he’s very short!

—Hm, well…

—  64 

—Yes, the strongest thing was that he appeared to be a gentleman—he was wearing a suit…not like a thief at all.

—Hm, like this photo?

—Yes, that’s him!

—That’s Bill Mahony: he’s in prison! Are you sure you saw the thief?

—  65 

A.No, I can’t.

B.Taller than me?

C.How tall was he?

D.Did he have a beard?

E.Well, er, it was very dark…

F.Oh, yes, he looked exactly like this one here.

G.Do you remember anything else about the man?

When you finish reading the book you will have____better understanding of _______life.

   A.a , the           B.the , a          C.\ , the                  D.a , \

The plane must be ready within ten minutes．There should be no         in sending the blood to the injured people.

A．hurry       B．delay C．time  D．wait

 If you are unable to attend the meeting, for ____ reason, you should inform us immediately.

   A. its                     B. which                 C. whatever      D. whose

The First of May is a Bank Holiday—the first public holiday of the year in England. Most people consider it a special day, the beginning of summer, a day when the light lasts long into the evening, and when we can look for warm weather. We don't always get it. We feel disappointed, but not surprised if there are cold winds and frosts at night in May. Winter should be over. Most people know that in the past, when farming occupied almost everyone, the changing seasons were of great importance. In that older time there was every reason to celebrate May Day. Customs of those celebrations remain.?

Of these customs, the best known is the choosing of a May Queen and the dancing round Maypole. Even these customs are little more than memories now—but in the last century it was quite common in villages and small towns, and even in schools and colleges, for a pretty and popular girl to be chosen Queen of the May. It was a great honour to be chosen. For a day she wore a light and flowery dress, carried garlands（花环）, and was ceremonially crowned with flowers. She presided over a procession, as a rule with a number of attendants, and over the Maypole dancing and all kinds of entertainment. The Maypole was slender（苗条的） tree trunk, cut off its branches, with beautiful ribbons fastened to the top. The dancing was designed in such a way that the dancer's movements move the ribbons into a pattern. This, as you can imagine, required skill from the dancer, and was not achieved without practice.

It's the Celtic people who celebrated the First of May as a spring festival. Their celebration seems to have had little to do with taking pleasure in early, beautiful flowers and in warmer weather! They called it Beltane—the fire of the god Bel. They lit fires, in the expectation that their blaze would help the sun in its struggle to regain its strength. They drove their cattle between banks of flame in the expectation that the terrified beasts would be purified and protected from disease. A tree, which must have been blackened with smoke, stood in the middle of the fires, and is thought to have been the origin of the Maypole. Their priests（牧师） made sacrifices to the goods in the hope of good harvests and sufficient store of food for the winter. There was dancing certainly, but it was noisy and cheerful, since its purpose was not to weave a pattern of colored ribbons, but to drive out evil spirits from the earth and to arouse those kind spirits.?

57. The main purpose of the passage is to show ________.?

A. the reason why they celebrate May Day

B. the start and customs of May Day

C. the way they celebrate May Day

D. the choosing of a May Queen during May Day

58. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true??

A. In the old days they celebrated May Day for the changing of the seasons.?

B. In England summer begins at the first of May.?

C. The custom of the choosing of a May Queen still exists in the present May Day celebration.?D. The Celtic people celebrated the first of May as a spring festival.??

59. From the surrounding words and sentences we know that the word “presided” means ____.

A. 管理    B. 越过   C. 指挥   D. 主持?

60. The best title for this passage is ________.?

A. The First of May           B. The Beginning of Summer

C. May Queen        D. The Holiday of the Year?

--- Please don't make a noise.?

--- _______I'll be as quiet as a mouse.?

A. Yes, I won’t   B. No, I will   C. Yes, I will   D. No, I won't

--- I’m not good at singing, you know.

    --- _______. It’s just for fun.

       A．All right   B．No problem     C．Come on   D．Cheer up